Method of laying paper or roofing materials on flat or sloping roofs



F. FREDERIKSEN.

METHOD OF LAYING PAPER 0R ROOFING MATERIALS 0N FLAT 0R SLOPING ROOFS.

APPLICAT ON FILED AUG-12,1921.

Patented Dec. 12, 1922.

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Patented Dec, 312, 1922.

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Application filed August 12, 1921. Serial No. 491,735.

To all whom it may cmwem:

Be it known that I, FRED FRnDnRIKsEN, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, anda resident of Port Alberni, in the Province of BritishColumbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1nMethods of Laying Paper or Roofing Materials on Flat or Sloping Roofs,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to methods of laying paper or roofing materials onflat or sloping roofs, and the object of my invention is to devise amethod to enable such work to be accomplished in a simple and highlyefficlent manner.

I attain this object after the manner shown in the accompanying drawingsin which- Fig. l is a fragmentary plan view of a roof covered accordingto my improved 2o melghod.

' ig. 2 is an end View of F 1g. 1

Fig. 3 .is an enlarged fragmentary end view. 1

Similar figures of reference indicate similar parts throughout theseveral views.

The method of laying the paper or other roofing material may bedescribed as follows: Commencing at the eave of the roof one row of 2 by4 timber, or if preferred 1" b 4:" timbers, indicated by the numeral 1,is aid from end to end between the wind shield timbers 2, which areslightly higher than the timbers 1. -A second row of 2" by 4" timbers,indicated by the numeral 3, is

laid seven inches apart from the timbers 1, and from the second row 3the other rows of timbers 4 are laid to the ridge of the roof spacednine inches apart. The roofing material, which should he in stripseighteen inches wide, is then laid, starting from row 1, and the firststrip 5 is placed with its lower edge folded under to extend inwardlybeyond the lower edge of the row as at 6, while ts upper edge is turnedover upwardly for one-half inch, as at 7. A first row of shingles 8 isthen laid with the thin ends towards the peak of the roof and secured inany suitable manner to the timbers of rows 1 and 4, being even at theirupper ends with the upper edge of row 4 while at their lower ends theshin gles lie within the fold 6 of the material. Other strips ofmaterial and rows of shin les are laid in asimilar manner from which itwill be seen that the first strip of material is folded under at itslower end to extend inwardly beyond the lower edge of the row with thefold 6 covering the lower edge of the shingle and then extends on top ofthe shingle to its upper end to cover the shingle, being then foldedback on top of the main portion as at 7, while the lower fold 6 of eachof the other strips of material lies on top of the main portion of thestrip below it and hooks into the up er fold 7 of the layer,

each course of shing es being laid as described that is, with the loweredge lying within the fold 6 of each strip and the upper edge directlyon the 2" by l timbers, and thus the shingles are covered with strips ofroofing material which overlap. each other along their longitudinaledges and which strips themselves are divided in sections 9, as shown,the sections overlapping asshown at 10 in Fig. 1.

What I claim as my invention is A method of laying roofing material onflat or sloping roofs which consists in laying spaced longitudinalsupporting timbers from the cave of the roof to the peak, laying stripsof roofing material along each pair of timbers, said strips being foldedunder at each lower ed e and folded back on the body portion at eaeupper edge, the folded lowei edge of each upper strip being hopked inthe folded upper edge of the strip below it, and securing a row ofshingles to each pair of timbers with the lower edge of the row disposedwithin the lower fold of the strip and secured to the lower timber andtheupper edge resting directly on and secured to the upper timber.

Dated at Port Alberni, B. (3., this 27th day of July, 1921.

' FRED FREDERIKSEN.

